*** SPOILERS AHEAD (and possibly aliens … ya never know) *** After the big bang, All aliens! All action! All intrigue! Even a creepy baby! look of the first two season 3 episodes, “On Thin Ice” and Collateral Damage”, Falling Skies took a giant narrative chill pill for episode three Continue Reading
Time to slip … or not … “Under the Dome” (new trailer)
The apocalypse is upon us once again and this time there isn’t an alien, zombie or electricity-sucking nanite to be seen. No, this time the enemy is a transparent, practically-invisible impervious dome-shaped membrane that drops without warning, and a great deal of bloodshed and severed limbs, over the small Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “We’re the Millers”
SNAPSHOT David Burke (Sudeikis) is a small-time pot dealer whose clientele includes chefs and soccer moms, but no kids—after all, he has his scruples. So what could go wrong? Plenty. Preferring to keep a low profile for obvious reasons, he learns the hard way that no good deed goes Continue Reading
Rip’d from the pages of my childhood: Agaton Sax by Nils-Olof Franzén
The Agaton Sax series by Nils-Olof Franzén was one of the major literary touchstones of my childhood. Yet another Scandinavian author who reeled me in hook, line and quirky sinker, Franzén crafted a protagonist in the short, round Swedish detective I grew to love, who was intelligent, resourceful and just quirky Continue Reading
Movie review: “World War Z”
On your marks … Get set … RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! That may sound like a flippant way to commence a review of one of the most terrifyingly-realistic, taut zombo-apocalyptic thrillers I have ever seen, but it is essentially the imperative that drives this relentlessly full speed ahead heart-constantly-in-mouth Continue Reading
Prance around with John Mayer’s clip for new single “Paper Doll”
I don’t usually devote an entire post to just one music clip but as soon as I saw the video for John Mayer’s new single “Paper Doll” – which some sites such as Spin are speculating could be his response to two songs by ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift’s songs “22” Continue Reading
Watch out for flying carrots! Disney’s hilarious teaser trailer for “Frozen”
SNAPSHOT Fearless optimist Anna (voice of Kristen Bell ) teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (voice of Jonathan Groff ) and his loyal reindeer Sven in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna’s sister Elsa Continue Reading
It’s better up there … new thrilling extended “Elysium” trailer hits orbit
SNAPSHOT In the year 2159 two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster), a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration Continue Reading
On your marks … Brad Pitt races from the zombies in new clip from “World War Z”
SNAPSHOT “The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Mireille Enos plays Gerry’s wife Karen Lane; Daniella Kertesz is his comrade Continue Reading
Music review: “Ice on the Dune” – Empire of the Sun
Oh the glorious sounds of shiny, happy, synth-washed musical excess. Sounding like the aural equivalent of a deep dive into a candy shop full of bright stripy candy canes, sugar0dusted jubes, and luminously colourful boiled lollies, Empire of the Sun’s Ice on the Dune summons the kind of joyful Continue Reading